The Wisdom of Lauren Cooper

BBC Canada recently finished showing the second season of Catherine Tate and I have to admit I'm experiencing withdrawal pangs. Nan, Derek, Georgie, I miss you guys! But most of all, I miss Lauren Cooper. Call it old fashioned denial, a bad case of teenage attitude or a wicked strong self defence mechanism but whatever you put it down to, you gotta love Lauren for flat out refusing to be embarrassed in even the most damning circumstances.

Doesn't matter whether her friends have discovered she works in a fastfood restaurant:

or whether she's put her foot in her mouth:

or just seen her boyfriend Ryan make out with some other girl:

or tried to a pick a fight with a new English teacher (Doctor Who's David Tennant) who is determined not to put up with her:

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likes to write things down and is a firm believer in the John Lennon quote, "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." Her ninth young adult book, JUST LIKE YOU SAID IT WOULD BE, is packed with movie references and giddy love for Dublin, Ireland and her middle grade debut STRICKEN is a sci-fi adventure that happens to be set in Dublin too.

Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from sci-fi to slice of life. Film school grad. Time traveller. Billy Bragg fan. Living with chronic illness. True believer in the John Lennon quote, “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”